Priest's Road

This road is often called the Priest's Road. It is closed to car

traffic but is used by walkers and bicyclists for recreation, and by

the Highways dept for access to water that would otherwise wash away

the highway underneath it. We walk its length, three km or so, a

dozen or so times a year. A nice six-km walk. And the day I took this

picture we added two km to each end by walking from our house -- a

total of ten km. Good walk. Nice fog, too.



It's called the Priest's Road because one end of it, just around that

corner in the picture, is the priest's house. Some people say that,

forty years ago when the big highway below was built with no local

access to it, the priest struck a deal with the Highways Dept that

they'd retain his old route between two parts of his parish by keeping

this road open. I don't know how true that is.